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On Saturday 22nd December 2012,
the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in coordination with Hizb ut
Tahrir Indonesia will be hosting a momentous International Women’s
Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia entitled,“The Khilafah: Protecting Women from Poverty and Enslavement.” It will
gather speakers and an audience of 1500 influential women from across
the world to address the causes of the deplorable state of poverty and
economic exploitation facing women in the Muslim world and globally, as
well as present the Khilafah system as the model of governance that can
solve this crippling problem affecting women worldwide. It will be the
culmination of a global campaign on the issue that Hizb ut Tahrir has
been engaged in over the last few weeks.
Dr. Nazreen Nawaz, the Women’s Representative of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir commented,“Across
the Muslim world today, millions of women are fighting a daily battle
for financial survival. Desperate poverty has forced many to seek
employment abroad, often facing in the process severe abuse. Others have
been driven to work in jobs under slave-like conditions to feed
themselves and their families, or left to beg on the streets. This is
manufactured poverty. These women are victims of corrupt incompetent
governments of the Muslim world who have built their personal fortunes
from the wealth of the Muslim lands, and they are victims of the flawed
and oppressive Capitalist system that these leaderships implement and
promote within their states.”
“This toxic Capitalist system,
based upon the free-market economy and interest-based model of finance
has generated mass inequality in wealth, pushing women globally into
poverty and economic enslavement, including millions living within
Western states as well as those countries celebrating high economic
growth such as China, India, Turkey, and Brazil. In the Muslim world,
capitalist colonial policies imposed upon the region by
Western states through globalisation, free-market liberalization, and
loans from bodies such as the IMF and World Bank have manipulated the
economies of the Muslim lands to serve the interests of foreign
governments and corporations while impoverishing the masses, destroying
local markets, and robbing the people of their wealth and resources.”
“Alongside this, the
exploitative, materialistic capitalist ideology that places wealth
creation above all other values in life has correlated women’s
empowerment to employment, devaluing motherhood, and eroding the concept
of male and state maintenance of women – all in an attempt to drive
women into the workplace. This has generated an intense social pressure
for women to seek employment to feel valued, and to adopt the oppressive
role of being both bread-winner and home-maker, causing them to
compromise their vital role as nurturers and educators of the future
generation. This system has dehumanized women to nothing but economic
commodities that bring financial benefit to their state, and left many
uncared for with no-one to provide for them and their children.”
“This momentous conference will
gather women from across the world to present the Khilafah as the only
model of governance that can put an end to this deplorable state of
financial hardship and exploitation. It will highlight how this is a
system that places securing human need over financial gain and views
women as dignified human beings to be always provided for and protected
by their male relatives or by the state, and not as objects of wealth
creation, while at the same time permitting them to pursue a career if
they choose. It will also present the unique and sound Islamic economic
policies of the Khilafah that have a time-tested approach
to tackling poverty and providing financial security. This will be a
state to which women globally can truly look to as a model by which to
protect them from poverty and exploitation. We call all women who seek a true solution to economic oppression and enslavement to attend this important conference.”
((أَلَا يَعْلَمُ مَنْ خَلَقَ وَهُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ))
“Should
not He Who has created know? And He is the Most Kind and Courteous (to
His slaves), the Well-Acquainted (with everything).” [TMQ al-Mulk: 14] (End/)
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